Vegetable-cutter



clear, and exact stars #PATENT N c fr JOHNV n oEF-F-LnR-orSTQLOUIs-MISSOURI..[1 l y vEerrABLE-CTTER.

v "Appucati'dnmd June 28.

. closure hereinafter particularlyl described and distinctly claimed."The object of my invention is` to provide animproved machine forslicing and cutting vegetables, which shall be simpleand'of'lowv cost,and which shall be capable of efficiently cutting all kind's ofvegetables intovarious shapes, for use in anyv of the ,well-'known waysin which sliced vegetables are utilized. ln the drawings, l Figure 1 isa side-elevation o f my im- Y proved vegetable cutter.

Fig. 2 is a top plan View of thesame.

F ig. 3 is a side-elevation of one of the slitting-combs, detached.

Fig. 4 is a detail vertical section, taken on the line 4--4 of Fig. 2,and

Fig. 5 is an end-elevation of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

VThe numeral 1 designates va .horizontalV knife-board, which may be madeof'wood i or any suitable material, and of any vdesired cured to thesize to adapt the device to cut veg'etablesof various kinds and sizes.

Opposite longitudinal guide-bars 2 'are seopposite edges of the saidknife-board 1, by means of a tongue-ands groove connection 3 and glue,in thepresent illustration of my invention; the saidlguidebars extendinga considerable distance above the upper surface of said board to form arun-way and support for the slide-box 4, which is formed with a groove 5in its outer walls, in which a tongue 6 at the upper edge of saidguide-bars is located loosely, so that the said slide-box will be freeto be moved longitudinally in cutting and slicing vegetables.

A tongue 7 at the lower edge of said slidebox 4 enters a groove 8 formedin the inner wall of said opposite guide-bars 2, so that said box willnot only be properly supported by said bars, but will be free to movelongitudinally thereon.

' angle, as indicated transverse steel cutter'or knife 10 is'setin iSpecification of Letters'latent. Patntgd Sept. 2.1 ,19,241V

1920. seiarmf39a4o4. j i i The said knife-boardl 'extendsfrom one end ofthe said guide-bars2`t'oa pointabout midway of the length of thelatter,Vwhere the inner end of said board is cut 'offf atanl bythe numeral 9,and a a recess 11 formed in'said board "immediately above said angularor overhungfend 9, Hush with said boards top.' v A Common screws 12,vor' other fastenings,

are used to fasten said knife 10 in place.

The cutting-edge of the said knife '10 projects free, so that it will/beengaged by the vegetables to be cut or sliced, when the vegetables areplaced fin'saidboX 4, and the latter is reciprocatedg on ,saidguide-bars above said knife, the said box beingv bot.- tomless, topermit the vegetables tocorie into Contact with'said knife. VF orcontrolling theV thi'cllrne'ss of the-slices or strips of cutvegetablesfl makeI thejinner end of the slitting-comb 'carrier 14adjustable with relation to the saidvcutting-knife 10, and positivelylock vs'aid en'd'inthe desired adjustment against' movement either up ordown; and Ipositively move iteither Vup or down, no matter if be cloggedwith material. Y c I. v

The said slitting-comb 4carrier 14 also forms a movableepart ofthebottom or base ofv my machine,j'and I vshall hereinafter call it themovable bottomvmember. Y Said movable bottom member' 14 is loosely orpivotally'mo'unted atl its outer end'upon a cross-bar'l, which exendsacross vthe'bottom and has its ends iiXed beneath -theun-A der side'ofthe said guide-bars 2 by means of common screws A16;gand the same kindof screws are .passed` through countersunk j holes 17 formed in saidcross-bar anden-v gaging said movable bottom .member, to loosely (orpivotally) co'nect said end of said bottom member to the said cross-bar.Said countersunk holes 17 are suilicientlyl large to permit the saidscrews to move a limited distance therein, when said movable bottommember- 14 is being adjusted. ASee Fig. 4. v

I The inner end of said movable bottom member 14 is supported, andforcibly moved Y up and down during the adjusting operation,

by one or more thumb-screws 18 operating. in threaded apertures formedin another cross-bar 19 that 1s fixed across the underside of the saidguide-bars 2 at a point near of common screws, as 16.

' member downwardly, to produce The upper ends .of Ysaid thumb-screwsthreaded shanks are reduced in diameter, or shouldered, and looselypassed through holes 20 in a rectangular plate 21 which is itself fixedto the free end of the saidl movable bottom member 14 by means of commonscrews or nails 22.

Countersunk heads 23 are formed upon the upper endsforl the said reducedportions I shanks, iiush with the upper surface of the said rectangularplate 2l, so that when saidA screws are reof the said thumb-screwtraeted the said heads will engage said plate.

and force it and the said movable bottom member 14 downwardly, inadjusting said a thinner slice or strip of vegetable or fruit.

' By the construction of the mountings for the said thumb-screws'18,just described, the reduced ends of same are loosely journaled inbearings, in the said rectangular plates 2,lout

the said countersunk heads 23 of said screws cause the said plates Y(andthe said inner end of said frmovable bottom member 14) to travel withsaid screws, no matter in what direction the latter are turned.

Of course, moving said thumb-screws in one direction will force saidmovable bottom members inner free end in one direction, and moving saidscrews in an opposite direction will force said free endin acorresponding direction; and thus the thickness of the slices or stripsof out vegetables or fruit is easily controlled, as desired.

In the present showing of my invention, there are two of the saidrectangular plates 21, each of whichv is in the form of a narrow stripof metalbent near the middle of its length to form' a bracket that isL-shaped in longitudinal section or edge-elevation.

Hereinafter I shall term the said rectangular plates 21 comb-seatbrackets, inasmuch as the'shorter arms or same extend vertically in thespace between the inner end of the said slitting-comb carrier 14 and thesaid transverse cutting-knife 10, and form thereat a seat Afordetachable and interchanffeable slitting-combs, 24.

Ori-e `form of said combs is provided with a series ofverticalthin'integral teeth which are set quite close together, as showninFigs. 2 and 5, while a modified form or comb is shown in Fig. 3, thelatter having its teeth farther apart, so as to slit the slices producedby said transverse cutting-knife 1() inl narrow or wider strips, asdesired.

The said vcombs 24 have, in every case, the

guide-bars 2, to permit` the insertion and removal of the combs24. v'SeeFig. 2.

Vsame size of bodies, so that one comb may be" The operation of myinvention will be i readily apparent from the above Vdescription.

l claimt In a vegetable-cutter, a movable bottom-member, member whichcarries said crQss-bar iiXed beneath said movable bottom members innerend; rectangular combseat brackets fixed to the inner end of saidmovable bottom member, with their vertical arms arranged to vformcomb-seats thereat; a slitting-comb adapted to vbe supported in saidcomb-seats and `.thumb-screws threaded cutting-knife; a a fixedv bottomthrough said cross-bar, and provided with` heads andreduced journals attheir. upper ends, which permit saidthumb-screws VtoV rotate, and katthe same time connect said.

comb-seat brackets to said cross-bar, to positivelymove saidbracketsvand said cuttingknife up and down. 2

In testimonyv whereofv l have signed my name to this specification inpresence of. two subscribing witnesses.

lVitnesses FRANCES E. MORRIS, J oHN C. HIGDQN.

JOHN Lonrrnna so,y

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